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Anonymous wrote:We are looking to move within Montgomery County and have two daycare age children. I understand that Great Schools ratings are not actually that informative. How does one figure out the quality of the schools? We hope to end up around North Bethesda / North Potomac / Rockville. I am most concerned about Elementary and Middle given our kids are young.

At the end of the day, high SES areas have the good schools. You can argue until cows come home but it is what it is. I'd focus on Bethesda/Potomac/North Potomac but not Rockville area. Full Disclosure - I am not in those areas.

high SES also have issues that go with too much wealth; low SES areas have issues that go with too much poverty.

Find somewhere in the middle. Rockville is a good one.

I hear that all the time but I don't know what that means. I can only assume you are referring to drug and academic pressure. Drug problem is all over the place - high and low and middle SES schools.

Did you ever go to a rich school, and then a not so rich school? I have seen the difference.

The problem is just more than drugs. Yes, there are drugs in all schools, but the level and amount is different in a lower income school vs a higher income one. Drug issues in wealthy schools get swept under the rug more easily because the parents can hire expensive lawyers (or they are one themselves), whereas in poorer schools, all the ugly is laid out for all the world to see. In the rich schools, the issues are more insidious.

Also, materialism is a big problem in rich schools. We moved from a small but wealthy school district, and the level of materialism was not something I wanted my kids exposed to. Student parking lot full of expensive cars; kids getting expensive cars before they are even 16, etc.. My kid won't get a car until college, if even that, and will be a used normal car.

DP here but this is ridiculous, condes and ignorant.

I myself graduated from a classic “inner city” high school. We had kids, including the star of the basketball team, selling crack at school. Kids were regularly getting jumped at school. Kids still had cars and many kept guns under the seat because they thought they were Ice Cube. You don’t need to be rich to have a car. It was an unsafe environment and I would rather expose my kid to affluenza, lacrosse bros and Potomac house parties than have my kids exposed to any of the things that I’ve experienced.

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Wokes have convinced themselves (and try to convince us) that W schools have just as many problems. But just turn on the news and see for yourself how many violent crimes are comitted in east county schools. No thanks.

I'm the ^^PP. You guys need better reading comprehension skills.

Never did I state that a much lower income school was better than a high income school. I stated that wealthy schools have wealthy problems, materialism and high end drug problems being swept under the rug by wealthy parents and their high priced lawyers.

I went to HS out west with real gangs. I saw drug deals go down, too, but as I stated, these were known issues that couldn't be swept under the rug by parents.

Having stated that, I'd rather my kids not go to either very low or wealthy income schools. They both have problems specific to that group.

I did well for myself, and when I had kids, we lived in a well to do area. The materialism was a problem.

Anonymous wrote:We are looking to move within Montgomery County and have two daycare age children. I understand that Great Schools ratings are not actually that informative. How does one figure out the quality of the schools? We hope to end up around North Bethesda / North Potomac / Rockville. I am most concerned about Elementary and Middle given our kids are young.

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Anonymous wrote:We are looking to move within Montgomery County and have two daycare age children. I understand that Great Schools ratings are not actually that informative. How does one figure out the quality of the schools? We hope to end up around North Bethesda / North Potomac / Rockville. I am most concerned about Elementary and Middle given our kids are young.

At the end of the day, high SES areas have the good schools. You can argue until cows come home but it is what it is. I'd focus on Bethesda/Potomac/North Potomac but not Rockville area. Full Disclosure - I am not in those areas.

high SES also have issues that go with too much wealth; low SES areas have issues that go with too much poverty.

Find somewhere in the middle. Rockville is a good one.

I hear that all the time but I don't know what that means. I can only assume you are referring to drug and academic pressure. Drug problem is all over the place - high and low and middle SES schools.

Did you ever go to a rich school, and then a not so rich school? I have seen the difference.

The problem is just more than drugs. Yes, there are drugs in all schools, but the level and amount is different in a lower income school vs a higher income one. Drug issues in wealthy schools get swept under the rug more easily because the parents can hire expensive lawyers (or they are one themselves), whereas in poorer schools, all the ugly is laid out for all the world to see. In the rich schools, the issues are more insidious.

Also, materialism is a big problem in rich schools. We moved from a small but wealthy school district, and the level of materialism was not something I wanted my kids exposed to. Student parking lot full of expensive cars; kids getting expensive cars before they are even 16, etc.. My kid won't get a car until college, if even that, and will be a used normal car.

DP here but this is ridiculous, condes and ignorant.

I myself graduated from a classic “inner city” high school. We had kids, including the star of the basketball team, selling crack at school. Kids were regularly getting jumped at school. Kids still had cars and many kept guns under the seat because they thought they were Ice Cube. You don’t need to be rich to have a car. It was an unsafe environment and I would rather expose my kid to affluenza, lacrosse bros and Potomac house parties than have my kids exposed to any of the things that I’ve experienced.

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Wokes have convinced themselves (and try to convince us) that W schools have just as many problems. But just turn on the news and see for yourself how many violent crimes are comitted in east county schools. No thanks.

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Anonymous wrote:We are looking to move within Montgomery County and have two daycare age children. I understand that Great Schools ratings are not actually that informative. How does one figure out the quality of the schools? We hope to end up around North Bethesda / North Potomac / Rockville. I am most concerned about Elementary and Middle given our kids are young.

At the end of the day, high SES areas have the good schools. You can argue until cows come home but it is what it is. I'd focus on Bethesda/Potomac/North Potomac but not Rockville area. Full Disclosure - I am not in those areas.

high SES also have issues that go with too much wealth; low SES areas have issues that go with too much poverty.

Find somewhere in the middle. Rockville is a good one.

I hear that all the time but I don't know what that means. I can only assume you are referring to drug and academic pressure. Drug problem is all over the place - high and low and middle SES schools.

Did you ever go to a rich school, and then a not so rich school? I have seen the difference.

The problem is just more than drugs. Yes, there are drugs in all schools, but the level and amount is different in a lower income school vs a higher income one. Drug issues in wealthy schools get swept under the rug more easily because the parents can hire expensive lawyers (or they are one themselves), whereas in poorer schools, all the ugly is laid out for all the world to see. In the rich schools, the issues are more insidious.

Also, materialism is a big problem in rich schools. We moved from a small but wealthy school district, and the level of materialism was not something I wanted my kids exposed to. Student parking lot full of expensive cars; kids getting expensive cars before they are even 16, etc.. My kid won't get a car until college, if even that, and will be a used normal car.

DP here but this is ridiculous, condes and ignorant.

I myself graduated from a classic “inner city” high school. We had kids, including the star of the basketball team, selling crack at school. Kids were regularly getting jumped at school. Kids still had cars and many kept guns under the seat because they thought they were Ice Cube. You don’t need to be rich to have a car. It was an unsafe environment and I would rather expose my kid to affluenza, lacrosse bros and Potomac house parties than have my kids exposed to any of the things that I’ve experienced.

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Anonymous wrote:We are looking to move within Montgomery County and have two daycare age children. I understand that Great Schools ratings are not actually that informative. How does one figure out the quality of the schools? We hope to end up around North Bethesda / North Potomac / Rockville. I am most concerned about Elementary and Middle given our kids are young.

At the end of the day, high SES areas have the good schools. You can argue until cows come home but it is what it is. I'd focus on Bethesda/Potomac/North Potomac but not Rockville area. Full Disclosure - I am not in those areas.

high SES also have issues that go with too much wealth; low SES areas have issues that go with too much poverty.

Find somewhere in the middle. Rockville is a good one.

I hear that all the time but I don't know what that means. I can only assume you are referring to drug and academic pressure. Drug problem is all over the place - high and low and middle SES schools.

Did you ever go to a rich school, and then a not so rich school? I have seen the difference.

The problem is just more than drugs. Yes, there are drugs in all schools, but the level and amount is different in a lower income school vs a higher income one. Drug issues in wealthy schools get swept under the rug more easily because the parents can hire expensive lawyers (or they are one themselves), whereas in poorer schools, all the ugly is laid out for all the world to see. In the rich schools, the issues are more insidious.

Also, materialism is a big problem in rich schools. We moved from a small but wealthy school district, and the level of materialism was not something I wanted my kids exposed to. Student parking lot full of expensive cars; kids getting expensive cars before they are even 16, etc.. My kid won't get a car until college, if even that, and will be a used normal car.

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Anonymous wrote:Nag. That’s 90s thinking. Do NOT correlate housing to schools. Pick the CHEAPEST and SAFEST neighborhood and go private.

Please recommend neighborhoods fit this description. Cannot afford Bethesda or CC.

I would do silver spring and Grace Episcopal. Graduated tuition, small class sizes, diverse and textbooks.

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Anonymous wrote:When a school does better than typical with its special needs population, ESL population or its low income population, that usually means some really awesome teaching and learning is happening there. Any school can do well with high income kids. That's easy.

This is very true, but if your kid is a high achiever or even just above average, your kid will get lost in a school with a lot of high needs kids.

Find a school that doesn't have a FARMs rate above 25% or so.

Anonymous wrote:When a school does better than typical with its special needs population, ESL population or its low income population, that usually means some really awesome teaching and learning is happening there. Any school can do well with high income kids. That's easy.

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Anonymous wrote:Nag. That’s 90s thinking. Do NOT correlate housing to schools. Pick the CHEAPEST and SAFEST neighborhood and go private.

Please recommend neighborhoods fit this description. Cannot afford Bethesda or CC.

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Anonymous wrote:Wootton cluster, Churchill cluster, Walter Johnson cluster, Churchill cluster, Whitman cluster are all excellent.

For this poster, it’s “avoid black and brown people.” YMMV. [/quote
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